"Do you believe in life after death?" the boss asked one of his employees. "Yes, sir." the new recruit replied. "Well, then, that makes everything just fine," the boss went on. "After you left early yesterday to go to your grandmother's funeral, she stopped in to see you."

A celebrity is someone who works hard all his life to become known and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

A farmer who has mowed down a thousand flowers in his meadow to feed his cows should take care that on his way home he does not, in wanton pastime, switch off the head of a single flower growing at the edge of the road, for in so doing he injures life without being forced to do so by necessity.
-- Albert Schweitzer